Retired Marine gets keys to Oxnard home

A retired Marine and his family got a first peek inside their Oxnard home Thursday morning thanks to an Operation Homefront program that gives veterans mortgage-free properties.

Raquel Lopez (left to right) and her four daughters — Cecilia, 11, Julianna, who will be 2 in December, Sofia, 6, and Nahdia, 8 — come down the stairs of their new home in Oxnard.

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Sofia Lopez, 6, (left to right) her sister Nahdia Lopez, 8, and sister Cecilia Lopez, 11, look inside the refrigerator of their new home in Oxnard.

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Raquel Lopez holds her daughter Julianna, who will turn 2 in December, as her daughters Nahdia, 8, and Sofia, 6, along with their father, Manuel Lopez, and their other daughter, Cecilia, 11, get ready to open the door to their new home in Oxnard Thursday morning.

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Raquel Lopez (left to right) holds her daughter Julianna, who will turn 2 in December, as her other daughters — Sofia, 6, Nahdia, 8, and Cecilia, 11 — and her husband, Manuel Lopez, step into the master bedroom of their new home in Oxnard. Operation Homefront and Chase Bank gave the mortgage-free home to the Lopez family Thursday. Manuel Lopez is a Marine veteran.